Comments on: How I wish newspapers would join the dots for their readers https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:40:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: carlos https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/#comment-95058 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:40:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13322#comment-95058 It seems that Justice Mckeon did not reside in Malta in the 80s.

What interests had Judge Joseph Herrera in telling Borg to compromise the court cases by notarial deed?

It seems that only two judges were the unlucky ones.

]]> By: matahari https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/#comment-95057 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:03:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13322#comment-95057 Whatever hell he went through, Walter Balzan must now surely be sauntering about in the garden of Allah.

Under the PN, he served as a senior member of Guido’s secretariat, then he was dispatched to the Malta Mission at the UN in New York for around eight years, serving first as deputy and later as ambassador, then off as ambassador to Austria, Rome and now Greece.

That makes around 20 years of well-paid heaven (complete with maid and driver). He must be as placid as a heavenly cherub on his lyre by now.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/#comment-95056 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:27:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13322#comment-95056 What is it they were doing in that video? Singing from the same song sheet?

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/#comment-95055 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 08:08:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13322#comment-95055 Walter Balzan went through hell and never hid the fact that he was considered the black sheep of the family because of his political views.

Ask him.

]]> By: Zaren https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/#comment-95054 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:58:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13322#comment-95054 He describes an incident which occurred in the late seventies. “A certain Portelli, who was a Lorry Sant canvasser, came up to me and said that if I did not give him a plot in the area known as Tal-Fossi the building permits which had been temporarily withheld would not be issued.

Is this Portelli Julia Farrugia’s father-in-law?

]]> By: Erable https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/#comment-95053 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:07:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13322#comment-95053 In reply to heartburn.

Sorry, Malta. No Truth and Reconciliation Commission for you. And no justice, either.

]]> By: Harry Purdie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/#comment-95052 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:25:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13322#comment-95052 In reply to lomax.

Ah yes, the ‘letter of the law’. Even when one is coerced to sign in a lawless time.

Again, I assume the judge will be duly compensated.

]]> By: heartburn https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/#comment-95051 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:55:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13322#comment-95051 Does anybody realise that the Victor Balzan mentioned in the Lorry Sant corruption scandal is the brother of a certain Walter Balzan, who used to be an influential official at the Income Tax Dept during those golden days, and who was eventually plucked by the late Guido Demarco into his Ministry, and eventually appointed Ambassador to Rome and currently to Greece?

There is always much more than meets the eye.

I never understood Fenech Adami’s lame excuse for not removing prescription from corruption cases, after the PN had built a whole election campaign on the institutionalised corruption of the eighties … just makes you wonder ….

]]> By: Grezz https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/#comment-95050 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:53:14 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13322#comment-95050 In reply to Erable.

Ssssh! Kev might think you’re talking to him.

]]> By: C Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/how-i-wish-newspapers-would-join-the-dots-for-their-readers/#comment-95049 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:40:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=13322#comment-95049 You cannot blame the judge though. Surely no one could believe that Lorry Sant’s henchmen would threaten anyone.

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